Data recovery

Information Services staff may be able to restore lost or corrupted data stored:

in your University filestore or e-mail

on your hard drive, including pen drives and external hard drives

Files stored on your University filestore or e-mail

Regular incremental backups are made of user filestore and e-mail.

Backups are kept for:

Email - 30 DaysFilestore - 30 Days

If you have lost, deleted or corrupted a mail message or file from your filestore you can check to see if we are able to restore it from an earlier date.We will need to know:

Your login-name

The name of the file

The directory/folder in which the file was located (if any)

The date the file was lost/corrupted

To check whether a restore is possible Information Services Staff may need to access your filestore, but not the data contained within the files. We will let you know whether a restore is possible and give you an estimated time of restoration.

Our technical staff, using specialist software, may be able to recover data you have lost from your hard drive. The hard drive must be working for us to be able to do this. It may not be possible to recover all, or any, of your data - depending on the state of the hard drive.